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From: "Marc Dufour" <emdx@ac*.ne*>
To: techdiver@terra.net
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:39:03 -5
Subject: Re: the quarter-turn myth
Le/On15 Jul 96 @ 12:47, vous ecrivites/you wrote:

> > Dick Barker wrote:

> > 1/4 turn was and still is a good idea if you think there is a
...
>  Personally, I would rather find out my "buddy" turned my gas off
...
>  Gas ON or Gas OFF.  That simple.

What the hell is SO DIFFICULT with making a SIMPLE 1/4 turn valve???
Gee, railroads have been using them on air brake couplings for the
last century! And they're intuitive (not to mention touch-feelable):
in line with the pipe, it's OPEN, perpendicular to the pipe, it's
CLOSED. Why bother with zillion-turn valves that have to be either
OPENED or CLOSED???? 

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